"Apology accepted, Captain Needa."
Posted on 03/13/2024 12:31:01 PM PDT by Morgana
British actor Michael Culver, famed for his cameo role in iconic science fiction epic The Empire Strikes Back, has passed away aged 85.
Culver's passing was announced by his agent on Wednesday and comes after the actor suffered a long battle with poor health. His cause of death has not been disclosed.
Confirming the actor's passing in a statement, they said: 'We are very sad to confirm the passing of our friend and client Michael Culver.
'A career spanning over 50 years with notable roles in Sherlock Holmes, A Passage to India, Secret Army and of course one of the most memorable death scenes in the Star Wars franchise.
'Michael largely gave up acting in the early 2000's to concentrate his efforts into his political activism.
It's been an honor to have represented Michael for for the last decade and to have taken him to some of the best Star Wars events in the UK and Europe.
'A real highlight was taking Michael to Celebration in Chicago in 2019. He was lost for words when he saw his queue line with nearly 200 people waiting to see him.
'We worked with Michael just 3 weeks ago at his last home signing with our friends at Elite Signatures.
'Michael died on Tuesday 27th February at the age of 85. We miss him.'
Born in Hampstead to West End actor Roland Culver and his wife Daphne Rye, Culver began his career onstage with Dundee Repertory Theatre, where he appeared in 35 plays across a two year period - among them productions of classic plays by Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, JB Priestley and Noël Coward.
He would later branch into classical Shakespeare at The Old Vic, starring in King Lear, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tragedy of Hamlet and King Henry VI.
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You know our depraved culture has reached a new low when it has “memorable death scenes”
“Apology accepted Captain Needa.”
I must not be a Star Wars fan.
I don’t remember him and I’ve seen 6 Star Wars movies over my lifetime.
I’m pretty sure James Bond also killed him.
Tended to play the second-to-top henchman who got killed.
Memorable death scenes have been a part of the culture for ages. In the movies arguably the Wilhelm scream ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream ) is the tops. But before movies they’re still there, I mean Shakespeare stacked up memorable deaths all over the place.
There have been times I would have liked to have Darth Vader’s ability to do this, but thank God I didn’t. 😀
“You know our depraved culture has reached a new low when it has “memorable death scenes””
Any other movie yes but it’s Star Wars so I’ll give it a pass we all knew Darth Vader was evil
Okay. We haven’t reached a new low.
We’re still squirming in the same mire as we were 500 years ago.
I would think the shower scene in Psycho would be in the top 10.
Or more. Greek tragedies have a lot of memorable deaths. Lets face it, if you’re writing a story with death one way to stand out from all the other stories is with a memorable death.
I picked Wilhelm just because that sound clip gets used over and over again. Private Wilhelm’s death itself isn’t memorable. But that 2 seconds of audio has got to be the most used clip in movie and TV history. Even animated toys and cars (Toy Story, Cars) have died Wilhelm style.
Never heard of him.
Was he an ewok?
True. Passion plays, too.
First, I use it in the sense that Sinclair did, meaning those considered of little importance, not worthy of "notice," by the dominant social, political, and economic group in a past society. Second, and following from the first, I use it to mean those considered not worth "noting" or writing about, those who therefore are not as visible to us in the written records we study. And thirdly, I use it to refer to those written about less frequently, or little "noted," by historical archaeologists.https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2qnx5pm
Robot Chicken had a skit where the crew had to pretend to be choked and die because if Vader realized he couldn’t kill that way he would just hit them with his light saber.
Three that immediately come to mind for me are Spock’s death in The Wrath of Khan, Roy Batty’s death in Blade Runner, and Quint’s death in Jaws.
Manuel’s death in Captains Courageous. is another.
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